All I do is a few things.
Read a blog about Bowie, listen to pre-Hunky Dory Bowie, read about either Hunky Dory or 1977-1981 Bowie, and now, I guess, listen to John Cale covering LCD Soundsystem?
Whatever. Point is, I try to continue work on songs, have ideas. Think they’re great. And they might be. But it’s possible I’ve overstepped myself? I want to do more than I now can, by myself. I need someone to throw ideas to, who can extrapolate them and know what I’m talking about, because I know so hard! but can’t articulate them into music. I know how I want “James Dean Aurr,” the song, to sound. I want some sort of cross between a Nuggets-style-glam stomper and “Low,” in general. But what do I get? Over-reverbed, over-done, crap. I can’t play the drums, I can’t even figure out my own guitar parts to play them well enough.
It’s a mess.
I’m not even posting the drummed up version I made today.
Some illustration samples I recently did to see if I get a job or not (in color!):
Show coming up, y’all!
9pm on Saturday Dec 5th
Elastic Arts (2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Floor)
$10
Renee-Louise Carafice,
Pool Holograph,
Granny Frost,
Violet Mice.
This is going to be the very best of shows, everyone!
It’s a time of being confused and wondering where to go. As for Birds & Wolves, I’m slowly starting again, and I’ve just inked page 65. My keyboard is terribly disgusting from my inky dirty fingers.
I’ve been waiting to hear back from people. Not my fault (it is my fault). I don’t want to go into it.
I started recording a song I’ve been trying to write for over a year, now. I don’t think it came out very well, but what do I know? I’ve thought every album I’ve started was absolute crap at the beginning, so I don’t know nothing about it.
I’ve had a few ideas about this next album. Right now, it’s to be called “Burque Spirit,” and either will be a twenty song double album, or be a song-stiched-Furnaces-esque collage album. I’m pretty into both ideas. Feedback?
Here’s the song as it is now:
James Dean Aurr
“Intentional detail in everything although sometimes you had to dig for it. Budget dictated reduced quality in many choices, endurance preferred over luxury or eye appeal. Compromise, and like most compromise, satisfying no one.”
—Reverend Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, in Frank Herbert’s “Chapterhouse: Dune.”
The reason, though, that I find this quote from Dune (above all others) so interesting is that it sums up better than I ever could how I feel about latter-day (say, post Batdance) Prince records. The genius is there, the albums are still dense and interesting, but they sound terrible and are confusingly bad. It’s tough sometimes to listen to things on, say, Chaos & Disorder, or Planet Earth, but when you do, you start to pick out the little things, and you start to get a picture of what Prince is trying to do.
Of course, comparing Prince to a Guild Navigator, encased in a tank of Melange Gas, is also pretty funny.
PS EVERYONE I FOUND PAGE FIFTY TWO IT IS NO LONGER MISSING.
I don’t think I ever shared this with you.
If I did, that’s cool, too. Here’s a loop that I made. It’s one track, no overdubs, all looping. I left the microphone on so it would feedback sometimes. It’s all made with the microphone, the sound it makes when you turn it on and off with reverb is really nice. It makes the clicking drum sound.
It’s a weird thing. It’s funny, trying to describe it make me sound like one of those dudes who make beats. I am no such dude.
Anyways, Kindness
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